Canada Quotes
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It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'
Constance Backhouse
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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
Norm MacDonald
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This gives us no pleasure, ... Canada is not a nation that rushes to embrace the use of force. We do not lightly endorse military action. For us it is always the last resort.
Jean Chretien
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In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
John G. Diefenbaker
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Canada calls on all parties to engage in an open and peaceful dialogue in a spirit of political reconciliation to promote a functioning, multi-party parliamentary democracy in Ethiopia.
Pierre Pettigrew
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I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
Wilfrid Laurier
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My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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About three months after I had Kelly, I went and played in Canada. I felt great, I was ready to go and I was very energetic. But as soon as I started playing, I thought 'no, too soon.' I went back home and slept for two days.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.
Bill Gates
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God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
Norman Angell
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Sam Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always bomb.
Norm MacDonald
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We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
Rick Mercer
